Installing Node.js on Raspberry Pi

Posted on 20th January 2017

Raspbian Jessie for newer models of Raspberry Pi comes with a preinstalled version of node-RED, a visual tool for connecting hardware devices, services and APIs. If you are running Raspbian Jessie, you might have an older version of Node.js that came with node-RED. You can check if node is pre-installed on your Raspbian image by running the command node -v